Improvement in wheels for vehicles



R. W, & D. DAVRS.

Wheels for Vehicles.

NO 148 1,22I PatentedMarch10.l874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ROBERT w. DAvIs, OE BATH, AND DANIEL DAvIs, orv BROOKLYN, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT |N WHEELS FOR vEHvlcLEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,422, dated March 10, 1874; application filed March 24, 1873.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT NV. DAvIs, of Bath, in the county of Steuben and State otl New York, and DANIEL DAVIS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have jointly invented an Improved Wheel for Vehicles, of which the following is a specication:

This invention relates to a new manner of fastening and drawing the spokes of wagon and carriage wheels when said spokes are made in pairs, the two spokes ofreach pair being joined or intimately connected in the hub.

rlhe invention consists principally in forming within the hub lugs or ears, around which the bends of the joined pairs of spokes are placed, and in providing said lugs or ears with set-screws bearing against the bends aforesaid, so that by such screws the spokes Finally, our invention consists in a new manner of fastening the outer ends of the spokes in the fellies of the wheel by means of rivets or screws passing` through the outer ends of the spokes into the contiguous ends of the fellies, which fellies are, by preference, hollow, except at the ends, where they are solid, to receive the rivets or screws.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a face view, partly in section, of a wheel made on our improved plan; and Fig. 2, an edge view, partly in section, of the saine. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional face view of the hub, showing the parts on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in'all the gures.

The letter A represents the hub, R B the spokes, C G the fellies, and D the tire, of the wheel. The spokes B are made ot strap or iiat metal, in pairs, the outer ends of each pair being secured in the fellies, while at the inner ends the metal of which each pair is composed is laid around an ear or lug, a., that is formed within the hub..y A set-screw, b, passing through such ear or lug, bears against the bent portion of the metal that constitutes the two spokes, and serves, when screwed inwardly, to bind the spokes and stretch the same, and, whenunscrewed more or less, to slacken the spokes. .It is evident th at a wheel of this construction must have an even number of spokes, and

' that in the hub half as many lugs e and screws from the box f into the box e, to hold all the parts properly together. The lugs or ears c a are formed on or Irnily fastened to the inner face of one of the plates d. The other plate d has a rim, g, which is slotted, or, rather, slit,

to admit the spokes B B, and which extends toward and against the other plate d, so as to close the space between these two plates d d, and between the spokes. Suitable screws 71. may also be used for drawing the two plates d d firmly together. The outer ends ofthe spokes extend clear to the rim D, and between the ends ot' the sections of fellics. They are fastened, by means of rivets i, or screws, or equivaient pins, to the contiguous ends of the fellies; and we prefer, in this connection, to use hollow fellies of metal, which have their ends made solid to receive such rivets or screws i, in manner indicatedin Fig. l. However, we do not conne ourselves to the use of hollow fellies' in connection with our improved wheel, as solid fellies, of wood or metal, may be used when the same are .provided with recesses near their ends to permit the application o these rivets or screws i.

We claim- 1. The screws I), arranged in the lugs e of the hub, to bear against the inner portions of the double spokes, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. The combination of the hub, having the lugs a and screws b, with the spokes B, pins e, and fellies C, the pins e' being arranged to connect the spokes and fellies, substantially in the manner herein shown and described.

ROBERT W. DAVIS. DANIEL DAVIS.

Witnesses to the signature of ROBERT W. DAvIs:

CLINTON W. RICHARDSON, ARTHUR W. DAvIs. Witnesses to the signature of DANIEL DAVIS:

FRED. HAYNEs, MICHAEL RYAN. 

